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October 29, 2006

Enabling Copy-Paste for Google Office in Firefox

Firefox has a feature that prevents rich-text editors from using copy, cut and paste. A malicious script could read the content from your clipboard and send it to a server. Your clipboard might contain sensitive information, so you don't want to let every site read the clipboard.

Unfortunately, these restrictions make sites like Google Docs & Spreadsheets harder to use, as you can't use options like: copy, cut, paste from the menus and you have to use browser's Edit menu or keyboard shortcuts.

If you want to enable these options for this site, you have to:

1. Open this file in Notepad:For Windows 2000/XP:C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[profile name]\user.jsreplace [username] with your Windows username and [profilename] with the name of your active profile (most likely, the only profile)